[gambit-list] How to use a module?

Hendrik Boom hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
Thu Jan 19 17:45:30 EST 2012


On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 06:35:38PM +0300, Mikael wrote:
> 2011/10/14 Matthew Koichi Grimes <mkg at cs.nyu.edu>
> 
> > As for Black Hole, one can argue that it should be kept as a separate
> > package, but there's nothing in that argument that says it can't be included
> > with the default Gambit installation. I would say the same for the SRFI's
> > floating around in Snow and Dumping Grounds. I would like for them to be
> > included by default, and be kept "separable" if that's something the user
> > cares about.
> >
> > Such "batteries inculded" installations are nice because they encourage
> > exploratory programming by lowering the barrier to trying out new features
> > (e.g. SRFI's). They also lower the adoption barrier for Gambit as a whole,
> > by lessening fears that every little thing is going to be some obscure
> > installation chore. This is particularly important for non-mainstream
> > languages, which, with some justification, bear the stigma of being a pain
> > to set up.

Any chance the v4.6.4 prebuilts are batteries-included in this sense?

-- hendrik



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